Philosophy: Aesthetics

'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses...

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers...

Leading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring aesthetic interest and ...

In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charte...

Dieses Buch zum Phänomen Mozart zeigt und erschließt den genialen Komponisten von vielen Seiten. Es ist eine fakten- und analysebasierte Synthese, ...

An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürers depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered...

How did Collingwood become Collingwood? It is by thinking through the nature of persons, art, play, history, archaeology, anthropology, ideas, perc...

Is art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works created by more than one ar...

Is art a form of communication? If so, what does art express or represent? How should we interpret the meaning of works created by more than one ar...

In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what...

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.   In this study of the practice of contemporary painter G...

The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatrys clinical gaze....

The prostheses Peter Szendy exploresthose peculiar artifacts known as musical instrumentsare not only technical devices but also bodies that live a...

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly preva...

This book explores the meaning of love and intimacy from a variety of perspectives, specifically philosophical, psychological and cultural. This vo...

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is a towering figure of modern Western philosophy, someone whose thought continues to exert an influence across all areas...

The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's final book, published in 1953. It will be of value to graduate students in philosop...

This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgensteins thoughts on colour, focusing in particular onhis so-called Remark...

A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses time Two photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a ce...

Michael Mitias presents, explains, and defends in some detail the features that make an artwork great magic, universality, and the test of time. A...